The Chartists in the United Kingdom wanted the vote given to all male adults and wanted a more equitable distribution of income and better living conditions for ordinary people.

Socialism is not the same as communism.

Communism, as organised by Lenin and Stalin, was an extremist (Kosher Nostra) doctrine, not much different from fascism; with the original Soviet and Chinese Communism , a rich elite treated the ordinary people as slaves.

Hitler, like Tony Blair, was used by the 'right wing' to smash socialism. Hitler got his thugs to beat up socialists.

The game of Monopoly can go on for ever, so long as the rich 0.01% do not end up controlling all the properties, houses, hotels and cash.

The game of Monopoly can also go on for ever, so long as you are allowed to borrow money.

You land on 'Mayfair' where your opponent has hotels.

You haven't got enough cash, so you borrow from 'the bank', which has limitless money.

Each time you pass 'Go' you pay 5% on your borrowing.

If your opponent lands on your hotels on 'Oxford Street', you then have enough money to pay back the money borrowed from the bank.

Of course, if your opponent has far more properties and hotels than you, you will end up with growing debts.

But, the bank always allows you to borrow more money.

So the game goes on for ever.

The game only ends if:

(1) the rules are changed so that there is a limit to borrowing

(2) and, one player has far more properties, hotels and cash than the other and the dice are generally in his favour.

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The USA currently has some economic problems.

Its debt is rising.

Its population is ageing.

Its schools are mediocre.

Its infrastructure is rickety.

Its politicians are corrupt.

It is spending too much money on wars.

There is a giant gap in wealth between the elite and the average citizen...A well nourished man steals maize from a starving child during a food distribution at a feeding center in Sudan in 1998. Photo by Tom Stoddart.But, so long as the US government can go on printing money, the game can go on for ever.

Of course, if the USA fails to get its house in order, the dollar will go down in value and ordinary people become much poorer.

We should all look at Switzerland, which is made up of a number of counties (cantons).

The central government in Switzerland controls the railways.

The cantons control education, labour, economic and welfare policies and so on.

Each canton has its own parliament and constitution.

The communes vary in size from a few hundred to more than a million people.

Douglas wrote: "Going back a generation or two... it was still possible for a middle-class father to support a family of four, but it now takes two earners to maintain most families, and that at a lower standard of living..."

"Over the past several decades an increasingly growing percentage of agricultural land has been gobbled up by big corporations and by corrupt governments.

"Hundreds of millions of people have been pushed off their land."

Global corporations dominate much of the world economy.

1 According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the number of "least developed countries" has doubled over the past 40 years.

2 "Least developed countries" spent 9 billion dollars on food imports in 2002. By 2008, that number had risen to 23 billion dollars.

3. Average income per person in the poorest countries on the continent of Africa has fallen by one-fourth over the past twenty years.

4. Bill Gates has a net worth of somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 billion dollars. That means that there are approximately 140 different nations that have a yearly GDP which is smaller than the amount of money Bill Gates has.

5. A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research discovered that the bottom half of the world population owns approximately 1 percent of all global wealth.

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6. Approximately 1 billion people throughout the world go to bed hungry each night.

7. The wealthiest 2 percent own more than half of all global household assets.

8. It is estimated that over 80 percent of the world's population lives in countries where the income gap between the rich and the poor is widening.

9. Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death and three-quarters of them are children under the age of 5.

10. According to Gallup, 33 percent of the people on the globe say that they do not have enough money for food.

A distraction.

11. As you read this, there are 2.6 billion people around the world that lack basic sanitation.

12. According to the most recent "Global Wealth Report" by Credit Suisse, the wealthiest 0.5% control over 35% of the wealth of the world.

13. More than 3 billion people, close to half the world's population, live on less than 2 dollar a day.

14. CNN founder Ted Turner is the largest private landowner in the United States. Today, Turner owns approximately two million acres. That is an amount greater than the land masses of the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Turner also advocates restricting U.S. couples to 2 or fewer children to control population growth.

Gordon Brown reportedly works for the CIA.

15. There are 400 million children in the world today that have no access to safe water.

16. Approximately 28 percent of all children in developing countries are considered to be underweight or have had their growth stunted as a result of malnutrition.

17. It is estimated that the United States owns approximately 25 percent of the total wealth of the world.

18. It is estimated that the entire continent of Africa owns approximately 1 percent of the total wealth of the world.

19. In 2008, approximately 9 million children died before they reached their fifth birthdays. Approximately a third of all of these deaths was due either directly or indirectly to lack of food.

20. The most famous banking family in the world, the Rothschilds, has accumulated mountains of wealth while much of the rest of the world has been trapped in poverty. The following is what Wikipedia has to say about Rothschild family wealth....

It has been argued that during the 19th century, the family possessed by far the largest private fortune in the world, and by far the largest fortune in modern history.Nobody seems to know exactly how much the Rothschilds are worth today. They dominate the banking establishments of England, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and many other nations. It was estimated that they were worth billions back in the mid-1800s. What the total wealth of the family is today is surely an amount that is almost unimaginable, but nobody knows for sure.

"What we have in the world today is not capitalism.

"Rather, it more closely resembles 'feudalism' than anything else...

"It would be great if we lived in a world where those living in poverty were encouraged to start owning land, to create businesses and to build better lives for themselves...

"It turns out that the global elite have decided that they don't really need so many expensive American 'worker bees' after all and they have been moving thousands of factories and millions of jobs overseas.

"Meanwhile the American people are so distracted watching Dancing with the Stars, Lady Gaga and their favorite sports teams that they don't even realize what is going on."

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Christophe Guilluy cited in the above article, strongly emphases how oligarchs in France, are parlaying the cultural Marxim 'you are a racist if you oppose globalisation or migrants' theme, as a central prop of oligarch power & ideology, even in their own minds

In short, "anti-racism is an opportunistic posture for elites seeking to justify their rule"

Guilluy writes of how elites in France & elsewhere, see themselves as 'righteous anti-racists' whilst the proles & middle classes are 'bigots', if ever they question job losses to cheaper labour overseas; or if they question migrants flooding in, overwhelming & impoverishing social benefit systems; or how people of foreign origins commit the majority of crime in many European countries, as very rough-edged migrants are intentionally imported as if to create permanent social conflict, fear & tension in the streets

The George Soros so-called 'open society' devastating local working classes whilst self-proclaiming oligarch virtue, is the model ... as Karl Marx warned was an oligarch tactic, Marx writing 150 years ago on oligarch-induced-migration, as Irish Communist in Paris Gearóid Ó Colmáin has reminded us

On Asia Times, Bill Ozanick who lived in Indonesia & speaks the language, echoes Aangirfan themes, describing the tragedy of how Indonesia's traditional syncretic, pagan-tradition-incorporating & mild 'East Indies Islam', is now being swept away & denounced as 'haram' ('forbidden') after years of aggressive funding by Saudi Wahhabis spreading their ideology very successfully:

« For years, Aceh was the only province in Indonesia to implement sharia law. There, those who commit 'crimes' such as blasphemy, adultery, homosexuality & gambling are harshly punished. Women are routinely & publicly caned for being 'seen in close proximity' to non-consanguineous males to whom they are not married, & just last year, a non-Muslim was punished under sharia law for the first time in Indonesia; she was caned 30 times for selling alcohol.

« But according to a Pew Research Center report, 72% of all Indonesian Muslims now want sharia to be the law of the land, while more & more Muslims are pushing for sharia in other parts of the archipelago. Last year, the Indonesian parliament proposed legislation for a nation-wide ban on beer, wine & spirits.

« According to the Setera Institute for Democracy & Peace, one in 12 Indonesian high-school students currently believes pluralistic doctrines of Pancasila - the founding philosophy of the Indonesian state - should be replaced & the country should become an Islamic nation ... 7% (18 million) of Indonesian Muslims believe suicide bombings against civilians in defense of Islam are often or at times justified ... one in 14 Indonesian high-school students supports [the Middle East's] Islamic State »

Although multi-billionaire hedge fund tycoon and international political pot-stirrer George Soros lost big with the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the victory of the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom, he stands to lose further ground, politically and financially, as the winds of political change sweep across the globe.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban now leads the anti-Soros groundswell in Europe. The optics of Orban becoming the first European Union leader to go after the Hungarian-born Soros and his destabilization operations has not been lost on other EU leaders, including those in Poland and the Czech Republic. Orban has accused Soros of masterminding the migrant invasion of Europe. In retaliation for these and other moves by Soros, Orban has warned that the various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) backed by Soros risk being expelled from Europe altogether.

It is no longer easy being a meddlesome multibillionaire who overthrows governments with the snap of a finger. Soros has not only alienated the President of Russia and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom but now the President of the United States. Soros is also enemy number one among the leaders of China. With such an array of enemies, it is doubtful Soros will have any more political successes like Ukraine or Georgia. With all of his billions, Mr. Soros now only commands a «paper doll army».

Soros is LOW on the totem pole of oligarchs, that's why Orban is able to be anti-Soros, because Soros is a go-to straw man for the Oligarchs. Sounds to me like Orban is just a typical controlled opposition lackey.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has emerged as a significant influence within the policy-making apparatus of the White House. After a rather public imbroglio with Trump’s strategic policy adviser Stephen Bannon over the U.S. cruise missile attack on the Shayrat airbase in Syria, Kushner is «in», as they often say in Washington, and Bannon is «out». In any case, the anti-globalist faction, which is led by Bannon, has received verbal «thumbs down» on several fronts from Trump.

Trump’s adoption of Clintonesque Democratic Party policies of opposing the Syrian government, confronting Russia, supporting NATO, backing the U.S. Export-Import (EXIM) Bank, and militarily confronting North Korea and China in East Asia have neo-conservatives and globalists cheering but many within Trump’s political base of «America First» nationalists and libertarians crying foul.

The warning signs that Kushner was fronting the neo-conservatives was always present.

The narrow gap of separation between Jared Kushner and some of Israel’s top gangsters is cause for alarm.

The feud between Jared Kushner and Bannon is not the first personality conflict Kushner has had with members of the Trump team. The first demonstration of Kushner’s powerful influence over Trump was evidenced in his firing of Trump transition team chairman New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his loyalists, who included former U.S. Representative Mike Rogers and Matthew Freedman.

Christie’s federal law enforcement investigation discovered that Charles Kushner [Jared Kushner's farther] tried to lure his brother-in-law and employee, William Schulder, into a prostitution honey trap at the Red Bull Inn motel in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The elder Kushner paid $10,000 to a high-end prostitute, who reportedly worked for a Manhattan escort agency linked to the Mossad, to lure Schulder into a trap, complete with a videotape system, designed to prevent him from testifying on behalf of Christie at Kushner’s trial. After Schulder’s wife was sent a videotape of the tryst at the motel, Christie managed to not only ensure that an embarrassed but angered Schulder remained a star witness but also got the prostitute to testify against Kushner. Another witness for the prosecutors, Robert Yontef, Kushner’s chief bookkeeper, was also subjected to a Kushner prostitution trap and a «smoking gun» videotape arranged by another call girl hired by Kushner.

The Kushner family appears to relish in the politics of revenge and blackmail as McGreevey discovered the hard way.

With Christie, and, possibly soon, Bannon out of the way, Jared Kushner will be able to cement his Svengali-like control over Trump. Considering the record of political muscle exercised by the Kushner klan against two New Jersey governors, one can only surmise the Kushners have a great deal of blackmailable information on Mr. Trump.

Svengali-like control?? Give me a break, Trump is a puppet shill, he is a willing participant, he is not a dupe, nor is he being manipulated by a man nearly forty years his junior. He was selected to be president just like the other presidents before him, because he is willing to follow orders. So tired of hearing about poor Trump the victim---he is absolutely no victim. Kushner is a partner in crime, not a master, they both answer to the masters above them. And Bannon is not out of the way or any kind of threat, either. This is all Alex Jones nonsense, because Alex the shill is being told to defend the shill Trump at all costs--for now.

Charles Ortel is a retired American banker. Yes, he's part of the One Percent, but he's quite a nice guy. They are not all rogues in the upper class. He's actually an outsider and not of the ruling establishment. He's committed to peace. Here he looks at the Clinton Foundation. I think you will like him.

As reported by Free Beacon, Ortel has been hailed as “one of the finest analysts of financial statements on the planet” by the Sunday Times of London in relation to his research into such companies as AIG and GE, the latter of which he started looking into as a refresher on researching current companies before starting his own financial advisory firm. He didn’t expect to uncover a company on the verge of financial disaster.

“To my shock and horror, as I tore it apart, I realized it was overvalued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It was a bad bank masquerading as a good industrial company."

And speaking of bad banks, now Ortel has turned his focus to the Clinton Foundation to expose what he says are shady dealings by the former president and the woman who wants to be our next president. In 2015, he decided to start taking it apart to see the inner workings, and said he wanted to pick a complicated entity, even if the Clinton Foundation is still relatively small compared to a huge corporation like GE. Almost immediately, he began running into problems when tax filings and disclosure reports from its major donors weren’t matching up.

“There are massive discrepancies between what some of the major donors say they gave to the Clinton Foundation to do, and what the Clinton Foundation said what they got from the donors and what they did with it.”

this is banking center, don't we all already know it ?You seem to contradict one older post.

Swiss country is a nest for elite banking, and that's WHY it wasn't touch by Adolf during the II world war...As simple as that.

About France :this peripheral France was toured by Marine, before first round of elections. Of course she took advantage of these social desperacy...most of her voters came from rural areas, and northern abandoned departements.

But FN was NEVER meant to win, do you know ?

Just to capitalize on social despair and give false hope to the voters...and ,in the "best" case, to became an "opposition".

Front National is political porn. :-(

Here very good article, but in French, about new president, which btw behaves sometimes like " marionette cybernetique" :